Books and writers that have a reputation of quality that you disagree with. I'll start with a few of mine:

Ayn Rand: Boring BS, if she wanted to write philosophy just write a damn philosophy book, but she can't do that because her opinions weren't well thought out enough to occupy a book.

Dan Brown: Enough already. He's not a terrible writer, but his stuff is average. I didn't dislike The Da Vinci Code or Angels and Demons per say, but there are other authors who are much better.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy: I like Tolkien, I really do. He's excellent at constructing a fantisy world and a mythology surrounding it. The Silmarillion was great, as well as the collections of his other legendary-style stories. The Hobbit was a great book. Somewhere, though, he went wrong when writing Lord of the Rings. The books simply aren't that good.

I dated a girl once who named those two books as her favorites. As is my custom I read both. I wish I had realized right away after reading them that she must be nuts.

I also find the whole Dune series blown way out of proportion. It's not awful like the two books listed above, but the cover claims it's "Science Fiction's Greatest Masterpiece" and whoever thinks that is delusional, or has never read any other science fiction.

I believe it's time for mankind to set aside the crutch of religion and embrace morality born of reason and truth. Those crutches have long since proven treacherous when the ground gets slippery.

Rainswept wrote:I also find the whole Dune series blown way out of proportion. It's not awful like the two books listed above, but the cover claims it's "Science Fiction's Greatest Masterpiece" and whoever thinks that is delusional, or has never read any other science fiction.

Stephen King! Dear god someone stop him! Never have I seen so much crap come out of one person and see so many revere it as if it were gold.

True terror lies in the futility of human existence.

Malcolm Reynolds is my co-pilot.

"The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." - John Stuart Mill

Capellini wrote:Stephen King! Dear god someone stop him! Never have I seen so much crap come out of one person and see so many revere it as if it were gold.

King does OK when he keeps it short. The longer his novels get the more they tend to suck.

Anyone who wrote Shawshank Redemption can't be all bad tho!

It's an issue of ratio. I think he wrote maybe 6 good books, out of how many total?

True terror lies in the futility of human existence.

Malcolm Reynolds is my co-pilot.

"The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." - John Stuart Mill

This seems to be a more of a "lets talk shit about authors we don't like" over "most overrated authors".

You know what? I think Dr. Sues is overrated. All he does is rhyme. A fourth grader can do that.

“We are often hesitant to look at other faiths or to examine our own critically because we feel that, in doing so, we are being disloyal to our own deeply felt convictions. ... And yet our beliefs are not worth very much if they cannot stand up to any scrutiny.” -- James Livingston.

Wawizzle wrote:This seems to be a more of a "lets talk shit about authors we don't like" over "most overrated authors".

You know what? I think Dr. Sues is overrated. All he does is rhyme. A fourth grader can do that.

I'm pretty sure the nature of the beast is such that you can't think an author you like is overrated.

True terror lies in the futility of human existence.

Malcolm Reynolds is my co-pilot.

"The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." - John Stuart Mill